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‘All nine coaches were derailed, but continued upright for half a mile before colliding head-on with a coal train.’

‘The company has imposed speed restrictions across some of its network because of fears that tracks could buckle in the heat and derail trains.’

‘She said there were two big questions that needed to be answered with urgency: how the car came to be on the track at the time and how the train was derailed in such a catastrophic way.’

‘He believes vandals could easily lift any of the sections of rail, or bolts, dumped by the railside and derail a train by laying them across the tracks.’

‘After the impact the passenger train was derailed, but remained upright until it travelled over a set of points which deflected it into the path of the freight train travelling in the opposite direction.’

‘Although the three carriages that made up the local train was derailed in the collision, its 30 passengers were only slightly hurt.’

‘Three trains were derailed due to the heavy rainfall of the past few days.’

‘They are targeting areas where children regularly play ‘chicken’ across busy lines, throw stones at passing trains and block the line with debris, which can derail trains.’

‘If a train is derailed at high speed the chances of it colliding with a train coming from the opposite direction are significantly high by virtue of the minimal separation between each one.’

‘There may not have been a case yet where a train was derailed by objects deliberately left on the line by young pranksters.’

‘The returning train was derailed by the drunken pachyderms, and by the time the line was cleared and we arrived back in the capital, I was feeling spectacularly rough.’

‘This is why, for instance, people are inclined to overestimate the risks of travelling by rail, because of the very extensive reporting when a train is derailed and a number of passengers are killed.’

‘Commuters faced more misery on Thursday after a train was derailed just outside Bedford.’

‘Rail chiefs launched an inquiry after two quarry trains were derailed on the same day.’